Re: What makes Lua tick?

[Dimitris Papavasiliou <dpapavas@...>]

> Hello All,
>
> I am a student at Nathan University, and I chose Lua as my language of
> interest. I would like to know what really make this language unique? What
> did it bring to the table of programming languages? Special features.

You might find some of the material here of interest:

 http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/cvpub.html

For instance "The evolution of Lua" or "Programming with Multiple Paradigms in Lua".

Dimitris